> Initially, they could only be slave driven because mass wage employment were not invented yet. ??? "Mass wage employment" goes back to at least the building

> Initially, they could only be slave driven because mass wage employment were not invented yet. ??? "Mass wage employment" goes back to at least the building of Egyptian pyramids, 4000 years before the 17th century sugar plantations you're talking about. Plantation owners didn't pay their workers because they didn't think black people were humans and enslaving them was cheaper than the alternatives, not because they couldn't figure out how to pay them. I'm sorry if I've misunderstood you but I've reread your comment many times and I cannot figure out what you're trying to say. When do you think paid employment was invented? How were ancient armies fielded? How did any pre-modern society build large buildings or roads?